Colon in XML results in Error

[chriskempson]

I seem to be having problems whenever there is a colon present in the XML e.g "xs:schema". Removing the colon sends the request fine. I've tried to isolate an example of this below.

Code:
response = client.request :action do
soap.xml = ':'
end

Result:
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/savon-0.8.4/lib/savon/soap/response.rb:75:in raise_errors': Savon::HTTP::Error from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/savon-0.8.4/lib/savon/soap/response.rb:16:ininitialize'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/savon-0.8.4/lib/savon/soap/request.rb:43:in new' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/savon-0.8.4/lib/savon/soap/request.rb:43:inwith_logging'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/savon-0.8.4/lib/savon/soap/request.rb:25:in response' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/savon-0.8.4/lib/savon/client.rb:78:inrequest'

I don't think this happened prior to version 0.8.4?

[rubiii]

first of all, why are you sending only a colon? anyway ... i honestly don't think that's the problem. you're receiving an http error, which means your server response code is not within 200..299.

[chriskempson]

I'm not sending just a colon. That was an example.

It happens whenever there is a colon in the XML. You're quite right the server's response was 400. However, I'm trying to figure out what is causing this bad request. For some reason it works fine when there is no colon in the XML.

[chriskempson]

I used to do this:
response = client.request :ns, :login do
soap.body = {
'ns:username' => "chris"
}
end

With 0.8.4 I can do this which is great:

response = client.request :ns, :login do
   soap.body = {
      'username' => "chris"
   }
end

However, now I can't put a colon anywhere in the soap XML without that error being displayed. Meaning the first example now falls over.

[rubiii]

could you please compare the xml generated for the request and check to see if both requests are actually the same?

[chriskempson]

I have confirmed that the XML is the same as the XML I am sending using soapUI which returns a valid response.

[chriskempson]

Never mind, downgraded to 0.8.3 and all works now.

[jkingdon]

Not sure I completely follow the discussion above but this sounds like the elementFormDefault change in 0.8.4. See https://github.com/rubiii/savon/pull/155

[rubiii]

this should be fixed with v0.9.6.